David Herdon Wright, age 88, passed away June 12, 2018. He taught at UC Berkeley from 1963-2009. Early Christian art was his speciality, he published widely on early Christian and Pagan manuscripts, coins, and sculptures. In the last few years of teaching he offered a course on classic film and another on UCB campus plan.
Books
The Vespasian Psalter (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 14), Copenhagen, 1967
Vergilius Vaticanus, Commentarium (Codices e Vaticanis selecti, 40), Graz, 1984
Codicological Notes on the Vergilius Romanus (Studi e testi, 345) Vatican City, 1992
The Vatican Vergil, a Masterpiece of Late Antique Art, Berkeley (UC Press), 1993 also German translation: Graz (ADEVA) 1993
The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design, London (British Library), 2001 also German translation: Stuttgart (Belser), 2001
The Lost Late Antique Illustrated Terence (Documenti e riproduzioni, 6), Vatican City, 2006 in the press: The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Copies of Illustrated Manuscripts, Leuven (Brepols) (commissioned by the Royal Library, Windsor Castle; my text long since submitted, awaiting editorial work and contribution of Ingo Herklotz)
in active preparation: The Barberini Gospels, to be published by the Vatican Library in the series Documenti e riproduzioni. Art in Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages (Pelican History of Art)
